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Hi all. I have a seven year old Acer laptop which according to Acer website can't receive the new MS secure boot updates.

This device lives in my bedroom and is purely a consumption device. No gaming, no nothing.

I have followed online instructions and turned off secure boot which now gives me a green tick in W11 Security instead of the yellow exclamation mark.

Now, I have MWB Premium now for several years and I'm reasonably careful with my online activity with this laptop. I'm also not a gamer in any way so I'm not asking much from this laptop.

Given that, am I safe to continue using this device for banking etc given I've turned off secure boot?

That's it, that's my question.

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Simple answer is yes, you will still get the Windows updates and as long as browser is up to date, you will be good. Only thing secure boot does is protect you against boot level threats and make it harder to install other OS's.

I've been looking into this pretty thoroughly lately myself as wifes computer has secure boot disabled plus my other, older computers that run Linux, don't have secure boot enabled. Have seen all kinds of questions about this on the Linux Mint and MX Linux forums.

Just don't suddenly enable secure boot now.

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On 28/06/2026 at 01:32, cork1958 said:

Simple answer is yes, you will still get the Windows updates and as long as browser is up to date, you will be good. Only thing secure boot does is protect you against boot level threats and make it harder to install other OS's.

I've been looking into this pretty thoroughly lately myself as wifes computer has secure boot disabled plus my other, older computers that run Linux, don't have secure boot enabled. Have seen all kinds of questions about this on the Linux Mint and MX Linux forums.

Just don't suddenly enable secure boot now.

 

I've been using MWB Premium for a number of years so that along with Windows updates and updated browser should be fine.

Thanks for that.

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